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Society & Culture

Society & Culture

Updated 09/06/2021
Music Commentary

Music Commentary

Updated 18/10/2023
Mental Health

Mental Health

Updated 17/04/2023
Mental Health

Mental Health

Updated 15/09/2025
Music Interviews

Music Interviews

Every two weeks
Sport

Sport

Updated 18 Jun
Music Interviews

Music Interviews

Updated weekly

25/02/2022

Sorting through our mixed feelings about Oscar Peterson

On the final episode of Jazz United, Greg Bryant and Nate Chinen work out their mutual ambivalence about one of jazz's best-loved virtuosos.
17/04/2023

Melissa Audige-Perkins talks pandemic caretaking fatigue

This one is for all of the parents who managed work and home responsibilities as well as helping their children with online learning during the first few years of the pandemic.
13/09/2021

A Fall Preview Six-Pack: Jazz United Picks Some Winners

As a supplement to WBGO's 2021 Fall Preview, Jazz United picks a half-dozen new releases we're excited about.
30 Mar

China Moses: "It's complicated"

China Moses spoke recently with WBGO’s Kyla Marshell and explained the idea behind the name of her album - a title that seems to reflect both the music and her lived experience.
6 Apr

From the WBGO archives: Catherine Russell live from J&R Music (2008)

Vocalist Catherine Russell chats with WBGO’s Monifa Brown at J&R music in 2008
21 Mar

Celebrating actor Michael B. Jordan's Oscar win and we chat with music power couple Iqua and Adegoke Steve Colson

On the March 21 WBGO Journal, we celebrate actor Michael B. jordan's Oscar win and Doug Doyle chats with music power couple Iqua and Adegoke Steve Colson
23 Apr

Emily Cavanagh: “Does Anyone Need a Song?”

Singer songwriter Emily Cavanagh on how she accidentally became famous in Ireland, started her non profit Song For You, lost the use of her legs and had to relearn how to walk, and what it means to spend a career at the intersection of songs and service.
28 Apr

Jason Miles on Miles Davis at 100: Reinvention and the Sound of the Future

As Miles Davis’s centennial is celebrated around the world, keyboardist and producer Jason Miles reflects on helping shape the trumpeter’s late-career sound on Tutu, Amandla, and Music from Siesta. From synthesizers and sampling to popcorn and boxing at Miles’ house, Miles shares memories of friendship, innovation, and the restless drive to keep evolving.
30/08/2022

On this edition of the WBGO Journal, host Doug Doyle has an in-depth conversation with Jazz pianist Monty Alexander, we pay tribute to the l

On the August 27 edition of the WBGO Journal, host Doug Doyle has an in-depth conversation with Jazz pianist Monty Alexander pay tribute to the late WBGO announcer and Journal theater critic Michael Bourne and WBGO's Jon Kalish has the latest about musician Andy Statman
18/05/2024

An environmental message from a professional sailor and an in-depth interview with blues master guitarist Joe Bonamassa

On the May 18 WBGO Journal, we chat with CEO of Canada Ocean Racing Scott Shawyer and blues master guitarist Joe Bonamassa

Welcome to WBGO Studios, the digital wing of "the world's greatest jazz radio station" Newark Public Radio WBGO-FM. Enjoy independently produced music podcasts and journalism crafted for the purpose of public enrichment, entertainment, and insight.